Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-30
WILL Be A GREAT STRUGGLE.
Cities Working Hard For the Repub-
lican Convention.
oMAHA's CHANCES OF SUCCESS.
1t Must BE Proven That She Can
Accommodate the Crowd-Con-
flicting Reports About the
New Navy-Capital News.


away. Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis and
Philadelphia are all in the field and will be
here before the end of the week with strong
delegations to bid for the great gathering of
republicans. Chicago has left no stone un-
turned to influence favorable action in her
behalf. For months past she has piled every
accessible member of the national committee
with facts and figures of her growth, hotel
capacity, amusement facilities, and railroad
connections. Her success in caring for the
last convention is urged on all sides in her
favor and carries great weight. The great
crowd of friends of the various candidates
who attend such gatherings and who look to
the amusement facilities of Il city as much as
to its hotel capacity, are all in favor of Chi
cagO. This, quite aside from political con
sderations, is an element of strength in Chi
cago's favor which cannot be overlooked.
| Many of the most prominent politicians are
| pronounced in favor of Chicago, and the
| enthusiasm of their followers has not been
decreased by the report that Chicago will
| furnish free transportation for all delegates.
Philadelphia will make hard fight for the
| location. a large and strong delegation of
| leading citizens will present her claims in
| person, backed by handsome guarantee of
| expenses. They will be ably supported by
| committee of hotel and boardng-house keep
ers who will give liberal assurances of cheap
rooms and lodgings.
Minneapolis not to be behind hand, will
| come through to the national capital with
train of five cars, specially chartered to carry
| representative assembly of her citizenship
| Speaking on behalf of the twin cities of Min
ncapolis and st. Paul, Minneapolis will offer
| the freedom of both communities and $4,000
| cash as u bonus.
| 1t will be seen that Omaha will have hard
| competition, with the chances against lis sue
cess, but between the contending claims of
| rival delegations it is not impossible that
| Omaha may succeed. There has been great
| deal of hard work done on her behalf in New
| York and in Washington during the past
| week. and there is a strong under-curlent in
| her favor second choice among members
| of the committee who feel themselves pledged
| on behalf of other claimants. The argument
chiefly used against Omaha is its presumed
| lack of hotel facilities, and the committee
| which comes to present Omaha's proposition
| should be prepared to show beyond question
| that it can care for every one who may be
| present if it hopes to change the opinion of
| those who are now apparently committed ir
revocably to Chicago's claims.
Riddleberger's Power.
| WAsnINGToN, Nov. 30 Special Telegram
to the BEE. There are conflicting stories in
circulation tonight IN regard to the attitude
of Senator Riddleberger of Virginia toward
the contested election of Judge Turpie Of In
diana. 1t is said by democrats that at "A eau
Gus of their senators yesterday assurances
were given that Mr.. Riddleberger would vote
to seat Turpie. The republicans say, how
ever, that so far from Riddleberger having
indicated that he would vote to seat Turpe,
he has intimated that he will stand by his
party, if it comes to partisan action, but that
he believes there is not prima facie case in
the credentials of Turpie, and therefore the
credentials would be referred to the commit
| Zoo =; In stn out . I,
regular procedure is taken. This evenings
local papers anticipate that Turpic will not
be sworn in on next Monday, and that he
| will be asked to stand aside until the commit
tee on privileges and elections have made an
investigation into his election. The Star says
that Turpie has regularly drawn his pay as IA
United States senator upon the certificate of
! the president pro tempore of the senate (Mr.
Ingalls) since the fourth of March last, and
that the certificate was made because there
appeared no contestant for Turpe's seat and
therefore it was concluded that he was enti-
tied to his pay The democrats seem
to o,,,;ta take ,na good deal tt Of ,h,, con,
republican presiding officer has certified to
Turpie's pay roll. The republicans how
ever, do not consider this of any significance
whatever 1t being due solely to ignorance on
the part of the presiding officer of the fact
that there was n contest of Turpie's seat.
, 1t has always been a custom to pay IL senator
or member of the house who holds u certiti-
cate from the governor the salary which
would go to him if he We're regularly elected
, | until it is decided definitely that he is en-
| titled to the seat In some instances mem
, | bers of the house-notably in the case of
! Richardson of South Carolina-have been
paid as much as $4,000 for two years SER
| vices, when at the last moment the house
has decided that some one else was really
entitled TO the pay In the Forty seventh
| congress, toward the close of the session,
Smalls, the colored man, was declared to be
| really the man who had been elected. He
| was not seated until the man illegally hold
) | ing the seat had drawn nearly eighteen
| months pay, yet Smalls was paid for the en-
, tire time and the man who had occupied his
| position was never asked to refund.
, Senator Voorhees, has reiterated his decar-
| alton that he will object to the swearing in of
| every republican senator until the Turpe
case is disposed of. Should he do this it
would lead to objections from the republican
side to the admission of the remaining demo
| cratic senators elect, and scene OF
great confusion and excitement would
, | follow. AT present the senate now consists
| of twenty five republicans and twenty-four
democrats, exclusive of Riddleberger The
| senator from Virginia in nearly every in
| stance has acted with his party, and there is
| no reason, so far as can be learned for his not
, | following his usual bent in this instance In
, Guiding William f. Chandler, who was chosen
, | to ill an unexpred term, twenty-four sena
/
5 in. Until they take the oath of Office, which
must be administered by the presiding officer
in the presence of the senate, they canno,
, | take any part in the proceedings and there
fore all questions that may arise before theil
admission must be decided by the fifty sena
, tors who hold over, leaving Riddleberger able
; to make a tie at anytime Should such stu
2 alton grow out of any objection to the admis-
! sion of Turpie, Riddleberger would have the
key in his hands. The republican senator's
!, elect who will apply to be sworn in include
! some of the Oldest and ablest of the body. OF
the fourteen, seven succeeded themselves
:. namely, Aldrich, Dawes, Edmunds, Hale
Hawley, Sawyer, and Sherman. OF the
twelve democrats to be sworn in only -four
/, are old senators-Cockrell, George, German
l and Gray, As senators are called alphabetic
ally in squads of fours to the pulpit of the
| president pro TEN TO be sworn in, Turpie's
, name will be the very last ON the roll of al
the saaators-elect and Mr., voorhees, will
have TO Object to the other senators before
Turpie is objected 10, or lose his
, chance of making the dstcc"hapce he promises
3 | 1t would be a rather unusual u not ludi
crous sight to see a great debate in t..e SEP
, ate with Edmunds, Dawes, Hale and Sher